History
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Additional Subjects Subjects
Key Stage 3 - Year 7 - 9
Key Stage 4 - Years 10 & 11
At KS 4 students follow the Edexcel History specification.
Unit 1: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present day
Content:
The definition of crime through the ages and introduction of new laws
The development of law enforcement through the ages
The evolution of punishments over time
A specific study of the policing of Whitechapel in the nineteenth century
Unit 1 Assessment:
Exam paper – 1 hour 15 minutes
Worth 30% of the GCSE
Unit 2(a): Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
Content:
The origins of the Cold War
The crisis of the Cold War including Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
Détente and the end of the Cold War
Unit 2(b): Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588
Content:
• The succession of Elizabeth and the settlement of Religion
• Challenges to Elizabeth from home and abroad, including the Spanish Armada
• Elizabethan society and voyages of exploration to the New world
Unit 2 Assessment:
Exam paper – 1 hour 45 minutes
Worth 40% of the GCSE
Unit 3: USA, 1954-75: conflict at home and abroad
Content:
The development of the civil rights movement
The development of protest and radicalisation in the civil rights movement
The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War
The reaction to the involvement in the war
Unit 3 Assessment:
Exam paper – 1 hour 15 minutes
Worth 30% of the GCSE
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